Blizzard considering releasing Diablo 3 on consoles

It was recently revealed that Blizzard are considering the possibility of releasing Diablo 3 on console platforms. The highly anticipated title released on the PC and Mac today but Blizzard’s Leonard Boyarsky hinted that they might bring the action RPG to consoles:

It’s not just going to be a simple port if we do a console version – if we are shipping a console version, I should say, as we are exploring it actually right now – we want to make it feel native to the console, so there’s a lot of decisions to be made and just a lot of thought and effort that goes into that.

I can’t help feeling that the Wii U would be the perfect console to release such a game on. The easy access to items, spells and abilities that the touchscreen controller would allow seems like too good an opportunity to miss. Do you think Diablo 3 and the Wii U are a good fit?

If Diablo 3 gets released on consoles, this would be the definitive version. Probably a lot of people who have the PC version would probably get it so they don’t have to constantly be logged into the servers to play a single-player game.

Whenever i hear about a PC Wii U port, i cross my fingers, because despite being a port, games like Diablo III are killer app material.